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Uber extends its open-source visualization engine into new frontiers
Like other top tech companies, Uber Technologies Inc. often creates custom software tools for its staff when the products available on the market don’t fully fit the bill. One of the ride-hailing giant’s most notable projects is a data visualization tool called deck.lg that became accessible to the public last year and has received a ...
Dapulse raises $25M to take on the crowded project management market
There are numerous providers of team collaboration services and software that focus on project management, but Dapulse Labs Ltd. believes the market still has room for one more contender. The Israeli startup intends to take on the competition with the help of $25 million in funding that it secured today from Insight Venture Partners, Genesis ...
Google says its ultra-fast AI chips crush the competition
Google Inc. made headlines at its I/O developer event last May after revealing the existence of an internally developed chip (pictured) for running artificial intelligence workloads. Nearly a year later, the search giant is finally opening up about how the processor matches up against commercially available alternatives. Members of Google’s hardware team released a paper ...
E-commerce giant Magento takes aim at the business-to-business world
Magento Inc. has built its reputation on selling tools that help retailers target online shoppers, but its competitive ambitions extend far beyond consumers. At a client event today, the former eBay Inc. subsidiary unveiled a new e-commerce service aimed at companies that sell their wares to fellow organizations. Digital Commerce Cloud for business-to-business promises to ...
Armor raises $89M to grow its cloud security operations
With a customer base of 1,200 organizations, Armor Defense Inc. aims to become a major force in the cybersecurity market, and today the Dallas-based company today announced that it’s speeding up its plans with the help of $89 million in newly raised financing. The capital was provided by ST Telemedia, a part of the Singaporean ...
Fresh off its $3.7B Cisco buyout, AppDynamics revamps its platform
While the AppDynamics Inc. management team was busy sorting out the company’s $3.7 billion sale to Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this year, product development efforts evidently continued as normal. The application monitoring provider today rolled out the first major update to its namesake toolkit since the completion of the acquisition last month. One of the main ...
Secondary storage startup Cohesity raises over $90M in new round
A dozen of the biggest names in technology and venture capital are betting that a startup called Cohesity Inc. will shake up the data storage market. Led by GV, the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc., the group has invested more than $90 million into the firm today as part of a round that brings ...
Salesforce adds new automation features powered by its Einstein AI
Like other enterprise tech giants, Salesforce.com Inc. is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to stand out from the competition. The company is doubling down today with a new iteration of its flagship Sales Cloud that sports several features powered by its self-learning Einstein data-crunching system. The additions are designed mainly to automate the manual work ...
DigitalOcean launches a free monitoring service for its public cloud
Hot on the heels of introducing a native load balancer to make it easier for customers to manage their computing workloads across virtual machines, DigitalOcean Inc. is augmenting its public cloud again in a bid to further improve usability. The startup today rolled out a free monitoring service that can provide insight into the behavior of every ...
Qumulo raises $30M for its ‘data-aware’ storage platform
After more than quadrupling storage shipments over the past year, Qumulo Inc. is marking another milestone in its efforts to disrupt traditional array makers. The company today announced that it has secured a $30 million funding round led by China’s Northern Light Venture Capital and several unnamed “strategic investors.” Four of the funds that contributed ...